The Annual FFA breakfast is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, March 3 from 7:30-10:00 at the American Legion.

Garretson High School Student Newspaper - Garretson, SD - March 2, 2018 - Volume 5, Issue 26

Blue Ink This Week’s

Need to Know

FACT OF THE WEEK: Sea cucum-bers eat with their feet LIFE HACK OF THE WEEK: Place a piece of wax paper on top of ice cream to prevent freezer burn. JOKE OF THE WEEK: What is Shaquille O’Neil’s favorite kind of lip balm? (submitted by Colton B.) BRAINTEASER OF THE WEEK: This starts out tall, but the longer it stands, the shorter it grows. Answers to joke and brainteaser are on the bottom.

Upcoming Events

Friday, March 2 - Region 3A Boys Basketball Rd 2 Saturday, March 3 - FFA Breakfast @ Am. Legion (7:30-10:00) - District Youth Wrestling Tourney @ Garretson (10:00) Monday, March 5 - 4th Grade @ SD Orchestra Sym-phony Concert - FFA CDE @ Howard - Pops Concert @ Old Gym (7:00) Wednesday, March 7 - 8th Grade Women in Science Day @ Southeast Tech - 7th/8th Honor Band & Choir Thursday, March 8 - Preschool/Kindergarten Screen-ing (9:00-6:00)

Worth Mentioning

Spring Sports Apparel is now available for purchase. You can click on this link find it posted by the Blue Dragon Boosters on Twitter and Facebook. It features t-shirts (both short and long-sleeve), lightweight sweatshirts, pullovers,

Garretson wrestlers see success at state meet

by Isaiah Miles Mader senior writer Last weekend, three Garretson wrestlers participated in the State ‘B’ Tournament held at the Denny San-ford Premier Center in Sioux Falls. The two day event brought in huge crowds and featured hundreds of grapplers from around the state battling for the chance to stand atop the podium. Seniors Jack Konechne (170) and Keaten Wagner (195) along with junior Hayden Pierret (120) represented the Blue Dragons. Konechne went through the wres-tling season battling a shoulder inju-ry which he suffered during the foot-ball playoffs, but proved to be noth-ing but healthy over the weekend. Konechne won his first two matches on Friday by fall and major decision respectively, putting him into the semifinal round the following day. Konechne then fell to the eventual champion by fall, but won one more match moving himself into the third place match. This was a rematch of the quarterfinal round and Konech-ne was able to defeat him again and take home third place to cap off an outstanding career. Jack Konechne added, “It was nice to see how many family and friends were there, it’s a big part of my fam-ily and I have made and strength-ened many relationships throughout my years wrestling.” Pierret followed Konechne’s path and also won his first two matches by major decision and decision. The following day, Pierret lost to the fu-ture champ by a technical fall, but was also able to work his way back into the third place match. Pierret

ended up losing to his oppo-nent, but still came home with a spot on the podium and a fourth place medal to end the season. Pierret will look to repeat his successes next year and once again display his abilities on the mat at the state competi-tion. Wagner also got the chance to showcase his skills on the mat, but was not able to attain the same achievements as his fellow team-mates. Wagner lost his first match by fall which immediately put his chanc-es of first place at zero. However, this did not stop Wagner from pin-ning a kid to keep his chanc-es to reach the podium alive. Wagner eventu-ally lost his next match by deci-sion, keeping him out of med-aling position and put an end to to his grap-pling career. The Blue Dragons are now focused on the future and who will step up in the years

to come after losing three solid sen-ior wrestlers after this season. Gar-retson battled injuries and sickness all throughout the season, but were able to find success in the end and add to the repertoire of Garretson wrestling.

JOKE: “Shaq”stick BRAINTEASER: A candle

Konechne and Pierret reach podium

by Heather Huether staff writer Read Across America Week start-ed in 1997, it was a week of celebra-tion and fun activities encouraging children to read. This year’s weeklong celebration started Monday, February 26 and ran through Friday, March 2. It included fun activities and dress up days for the young students at Garretson. The dress up days included hat day on Monday, scrabble day on Tuesday, color day on Wednesday, genre day on Thursday, and ending on Friday with pajama day.

The celebration ends today, which is Dr. Seuss’s birthday. The elementary kicked off each day this week with an assembly that touched anywhere from the theme of the dress up day to sharing the importance and fun of reading and

writing. Friday was similar to a party day, where elementary students brought their favorite book and a prop to go with their book. Then they get to rotate from class to class look-ing at everyone’s favorite books. Read Across America week is meant to motivate children to read in and outside of school. Reading is an important factor in student achievement. Research has shown that children, who are motivated and spend more time reading, do better in school.

Elementary school embraces a love of reading while cele-brating Dr. Seuss’

birthday

Read Across America Week

Jack Konechne takes down his 4th opponent of the tournament via fall. Konechne pinned Ty Namanny from Kimball-White Lake-Plankinton in 0:34 to advance to the third place match.

Photo by Anna Uhl

In a gripping third place match, Hayden Pierret takes the advantage from Elk Point-Jefferson’s Zak Fowler. Fowler however came back to win via major decision. Pierret placed fourth.

Photo by Anna Uhl

by Mrs. Julie Mueller guest contributor The 16th An-nual Garretson Middle School/High School Sci-ence Fair was held Monday, February 26, 2018. Eighty-four middle school students and one high school stu-dent participated in the science fair. Winning 1st place honors in Animal Science was Drew Pederson with his project “Does the Length of Gestation Vary Between Bull & Heifer Calves?”. A red ribbon and second place went to Julia Mosley and Dakota Olund with a project on animal camouflage enti-tled “M & M Survival Challenge”. Rounding out the animal science di-vision was Jenna Wastell and Chris Wynia earning 3rd and white with “How to Make Toys for Cats”. “Do You See What Eye See?” by Morgan Damman, Kayla Genzlinger, and Anna Jones took first place hon-ors with a blue in the Behavioral Sci-ences. A red ribbon and second went to Julia Larson’s “Can Adults Pass a Middle School Test?”. Third place with a red went to Sami Kruger and Aliyah Leedy’s “How Does Fear Change with Age?”, and Amber Hulscher took fourth with a red on “Pinocchio’s Arm: A Lie Detector!”. “Butter Battles” by Madi Decker won the Biochemistry - Food Science Emphasis division. Also earning blues and second was the team of Jazmine Osberg and Grace Panning with “Gluten Free vs. Taste Buds” and No-el Johnson’s “How Greasy are Your Potato Chips?”. The team of Peyton Beckman and Grace Hove’s “Brownies” also earned a blue and

third. Tying for 4th place with reds were Raegan Altman and Logan Bly with “Homemade Ice Cream” and the team of Maverick Houg, Acen Olson, and Tryston Olund with “Vinegar’s Effects on Food” and Sa-mantha Shellum, Erin Steen, and Mataya Trower’s “Chemistry of Ice-Cream Making”. Joy Fry and Morgan Moritz’s “Cupcake Differences” took 5th and red. In 6th with a white was Hunter Abraham and Peyton Abra-ham with “Putting Brand Popcorn to the Test”. “Strawberries in Acids” by Chloe Flahaven, Bryce Stoterau, and Dustyn Winterton earned 7th and white. “Which Type of Carpet Fiber is Most Stain Resistant?” by Isaiah Gnadt won the Chemistry category. Also earning a blue and taking sec-ond were Dylan Jessen and Joe Sundvold with “Sugar Explosion”. “Veggie Power” by Connor Bertotti earned third and blue. Katie Han-son’s “Bouncing Eggs” was fourth and blue, Zach Uhl’s “Potato vs. Lem-on” was fifth and blue, and Olivia Mullin rounded out the blues with her 6th place project “Bouncy Poly-mer Chemistry”. In the reds and 7th were Jaelyn Benson, Mya Long, and Chloe Schleuter with “Bath Bombs!”, 8th was Autumn Gaspar with “Will it

Slime?” and 9th was Logan Facile, Breydon Lee, and Jaden Richter with “Can You Charge a Phone Without an Outlet?”. Adam Hulscher earned a red rib-bon in Computer Science with his “Computer Game Design” project. Our only high school participant was Aiden Magnuson with his Earth Sci-ence project on how water perco-lates through different soil types en-titled “Percolation Rates of Soil”. “Perpetual Hydroelectric Genera-tor” by Austin Palmlund and Alex Reker took first and blue in the Ener-gy and Transportation category. Earning blue and second was Sean Gottschalk with “Burning Biofuels: Comparing Nonrenewable with Re-newable Fuels” and Gabe Johnson with “What are the Best Materials for Parachutes” was third and blue. “Simple Motor” by the trio of Braedon Genzlinger, Eli Reed, and Gentry Sanders won the Engineering division. Second and white went to Justin Stoterau with his project enti-tled “Engineering Ski Lifts”. Reds went to Olivi-yah Thorton with “How to Filter Water” and Mason Till-ma with “Cheminerals” in that order in the Environ-mental Science area. Allison Ebb-ing won the Medicine and Health category with her project “Are Fingerprint Patterns Inherited?” Blue and second went to Kloey Mullin, Taylor Sage, and Rian Smidt with “Egg Drop”, a study in how to prevent concussions. Third and blue went to Payton Campbell and Jenna VanHolland with “Germs”

and to Maren Bonte with “How Sweet it Is! Measuring the Glucose in Your Food.” Reds were earned by the fourth place winners, Morgan Pierret and Lily Ranschau, with “How Much Fat is in Your Food?” and 5th and red went to Braxten Rozeboom with “Electrolyte Challenge”. Lauren Fick and Sarah Welch took 1st and blue in the Physics division. Their project was entitled “Wire Wilt: How Light-Emitting Diodes Fade as Temperature Increases”. Blue and second were Carson Clark, Clay Lardy, and Cooper Long with “The Science of Hoops!”. With “It’s Good!”, Ryan Flanagan, Jayse Miller, and Tayson Swatek earned third and blue. Fourth and blue honors go to “Under Pressure Ball Bouncing Dy-namics” by Dylan Kindt and Cadyn Ockenga. Earning a red and fifth were Preston Bohl and Matthew Gil-bert with “Basketball vs. Sciene”. Sixth and red went to Sam Schleu-ter’s “Does PSI Matter?”, 7th and red to Keara Bottelberghe and Bryn

Johnson with “Bouncing Basketballs: How Much Energy Does Dribbling Take?”, and 8th and white was Josh Mehlhoff with “Marble Races.” In the overalls, Co-Honorable Mentions went to Allison Ebbing, daughter of Michael and Melissa

Ebbing, and Austin Palmlund, son of Russel Palmlund, and Alex Reker, son of Ryan and Amie Reker. Re-serve Champion went to Isaiah Gnadt, son of Markell and Julie Gnadt. Co-Grand Champions were Lauren Fick, daugher of Doug and Sheri Fick, and Sarah Welch, daugh-ter of Martin Welch and Beth Wech and Drew Pederson, son of Jana Julson and Mark Pederson. Judges for this year’s event were: Keara Beck, Ryan Fick, Collin Flahaven (GHS high school students who were all three year regional participants), Brad Farrell (Agronomist, Garretson CHS East-ern Farmers), Geof Furness (high school science teacher), Ruth Saraar (retired high school English teacher and school board member), Sydney Sleep (SDSU Ag/Bio Ambas-sador, Ag Communcations major) and Anna Wolles (SDSU Ag/Bio Am-bassador, Pre-Physical Therapy ma-jor.)

Garretson High School Student Newspaper Page 2 March 2, 2018

Science rock stars Annual science fair competition brings out the best

in middle school students

In light of Read Across America Week, students were asked what their fa-vorite Dr. Seuss book was. The Lorax edged out The Cat in the Hat for top bill-ing.

Student Opinion Poll Mikayla Bottelberghe

Drew Pederson tied for Grand Champion with his Animal Science project on bovine gestational periods.

Photo by Keara Beck

Sara Welch and Lauren Fick presented in the physics division focusing on the correlation between temperature and light-emitting diodes. Welch and Fick earned overall Grand Champion for this project, tying Drew Pederson .

Photo by Keara Beck

Garretson High School Student Newspaper Page 3 March 2, 2018

by Mason Hofer staff writer—editorial After an exiting football season with little to no disappointments capped off by an Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl victory over perennial contender New England Patriots, it is now time for free agency and the trading block. One of the biggest trade talks that has happened so far is Chiefs QB Alex Smith to the Red-skins. Technically this is not official until the season is actually in pro-gress, but is considered a “done-deal” by many. Other notable faces could also see a change in jersey color. These

are some of the players that could be in a new home this next season: · Case Keenum (Minnesota Vikings) · Le’Veon Bell (Pittsburgh Steelers) · Mark Ingram (New Orleans Saints) · Kirk Cousins (Washington Redskins) The Redskins are talking about slapping a franchise tag so that Cousins cannot leave during free agency but they can trade him and get some decent players out of it. While on the topic of franchise tags, Le’Veon Bell has threatened to “retire” if the Steelers put another franchise tag on him. Bell believes that he is worth a contract of $60M a year. If the Steelers believe that he is worth this is yet to be determined.

Ingram unlike the other two, does not have lots of buzz around the trading table, but I believe that after his spectacular season with the Saints, he could request to be trad-ed. Alvin Kamara, Saints running-back, also won rookie of the year so it would not be that hard of a hit to the team if they were to trade In-gram for another decent back. Chiefs have also made their sec-ond trade very early in the offsea-son; Kansas City traded a young pro bowl cornerback in Marcus Peters for two future draft picks to the Rams. It appears that Kansas City is looking to rebuild after past playoff struggles.

NFL Free Agency Summit League

SENIOR PROJECT: Designed the summer weight training pro-gram for foot-ball ACTIVITIES INVOLVED IN: Football Powerlifting Choir Band National Honor Society WHO/WHAT WILL YOU MISS THE MOST: Not having to pay for anything PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR: Attend SDSU for political science and history

Senior Spotlight Zebadiah Johnson

SENIOR PROJECT: Gardening and making salsa ACTIVITIES IN-VOLVED IN: Football Basketball Track WHO/WHAT WILL YOU MISS THE MOST: My dog Buster PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR: Attend SDSU to major in exer-cise science.

Senior Spotlight Marc Rattenborg

by Greg Arana staff writer The Summit League is a D1 college basketball league made up of eight colleges in the Midwestern United States. There are four games this weekend within the Summit League Tournament, with the winner earning an automatic berth to the big dance. The colleges in the league are the following: South Dakota State, South Dakota, Western Illinois, Omaha, North Dakota State, Denver, Fort Wayne, and Oral Roberts. The league is planning on adding the University of North Dakota sometime this year. Last weekend served as the final conference play before the tourna-ment. The South Dakota women hold the #1 seed while South Dakota State is #2. These seedings are reversed for the men’s side with Jackrabbits holding the top slot and the Coyotes right be-hind them. Proximity of top contending teams is helpful as ticket sales are projected to be the biggest yet since coming to Sioux Falls, but they need to get to the championship first. Opening round games are Saturday and Sunday. Championships are held Tuesday in the Denny Sanford Premier Center. In conjunction with the games this week-end, the Summit League is hosting a fanfest in the conjoining convention center and arena. The fanfest is free to the public regardless of ticket purchas-es for the basketball games.

Last week the Blue Ink ran an edi-torial that concentrated on not only the unfortunate events that hap-pened in Parkland but school shootings since the start of 2018. While it is an editorial, there is

one clarification. It has been widely reported that there have been 18 school shootings since the turn of the year. This has been said not

only by this article in the Blue Ink but also the New York Daily News, Busi-ness Insider, and ABC News among others. While this number is accu-rate concerning gun-related inci-dents on school grounds, there is a

difference between that and a mass school shooting which there are con-siderably far fewer of. Many of the times, there were no injuries and in some cases the shootings were acci-dental. The Blue Ink is neither for nor against gun control nor cares to take a side in that debate.

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